David Attenborough has slammed professional explorer , survivalist , and Chief Scout Bear Grylls for prove the vicious killing of a crocodile on his idiot box showCelebrity Island with Bear Grylls .
In 2016 , British realness television set superstar Ollie Locke was demo leap on the back of the creature and stabbing it through the neck opening . The show was a Greek valerian especial variation of Bear ’s survival program , in which hoi polloi are taught survival skills and entrust on an island to resist for themselves .
Ollie , then 28 , leapt on the back of the Caiman crocodile and pushed the tongue through its neck , having been instruct how to kill the animal in a humane way . Locke , illustrious for TV showMade In Chelsea , order concisely later on : " I think that ’s one of the hardest things I ’ve ever done in my integral life , " and subsequently unwrap down when talking about the incident to his mother .
At the prison term , many fans and animal right group were not pleased with the section , prove on Channel 4 in the UK .
The 2017 Jacob’s ladder episode also sport Olympian sprinter Iwan Thomas and doer Ryan Thomas also vote out a crocodile with a tongue .
Now Sir David Attenborough has jam in , doom the viewing of the segment . The much - love documentary maker , in his common measured words , has said that he would never do what Bear had done for his TV show .
" We ’ve never killed an brute , " theBlue PlanetandPlanet Earthpresentertold the Sun , like an unhappy school teacher . “ Bear Grylls will have to resolve for himself . But I would n’t willingly kill an animal just to get a shot . ”
Oof . That ’s the British eq of Pwning .
Bear , who is n’t even an real bear , has come under criticisms for early episodes of the same television set show . In a 2015 episode , four contestants wereshown sneaking up on a pig before slit its throat . The show received over 450 complaints from viewers . patently undeterred , the show still broadcast the crocodile - killing segments .
Channel 4 defended the putting to death , telling Digital Spy , " those on the island all invite education on how to kill animals humanely and this was apply properly in each illustration . "
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